Most contemporary versions of moral realism are beset with
difficulties. Many of these difficulties arise because of a faulty
conception of the nature of goodness. Goodness, God, and Evil lays out
and defends a new version of moral realism that re-conceives the
nature of goodness. Alexander argues that the adjective 'good' is best
thought of as an attributive adjective and not as a predicative one.
In other words, the adjective 'good' logically cannot be detached from
the noun (or noun phrase) that it modifies. It is further argued that
this conception of the function of the adjective implies that recent
attempts to provide necessary a posteriori identities between goodness
and something else must fail. The convertibility of being and
goodness, the privation theory of evil, a denial of the fact-value
distinction, human nature as the ground of human morality and even a
novel argument for the existence of God are some of the implications
of the account of goodness that Alexander offers.
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9781441199843
Publisert
2015
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Continuum
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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